Category Archives: Media Watch

Is Twitter Throttling Trump Supporters?

Posted on February 5, 2017 by Lawrence Person

Scott Adams pointed out this video that suggests Twitter is using deep analytics to hide the posts of some users from the “power users” among their followers: They basically cut them off. Say you’ve got a hundred followers and 10 … Continue reading →

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Trumpkrieg: Moving Fast and Breaking Things

Posted on February 1, 2017 by Lawrence Person

I suspect very few observers, left or right, predicted that President Trump would hit the ground running quite as fast and hard as he has, and only his most ardent supporters suspected he would govern as conservatively as he has. … Continue reading →

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8 6 Dead in Canadian Mosque Shooting, Attackers Shouted “Allah Akbar”

Posted on January 29, 2017 by Lawrence Person

Numerous people are dead after a shooting at a Canadian mosque in Quebec City. A witness, who asked to remain anonymous, told CBC’s French-language service Radio-Canada that two masked individuals entered the mosque. “It seemed to me that they had … Continue reading →

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LinkSwarm for January 27, 2017

Posted on January 27, 2017 by Lawrence Person

Welcome to the Friday LinkSwarm! The first week of President Trump’s administration has been incredibly active and consequential! Not everything will be covered here (and I have a few posts on various issues and executive orders at various stages of … Continue reading →

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Ted Cruz/Deadspin Follow-Up

Posted on January 26, 2017 by Lawrence Person

After Ted Cruz pwned Deadspin, the rag’s previously quiescent editor Tim Marchman inexplicably started talking smack. Amazing that low-testosterone Ted Cruz enthusiasts are comfortable haranguing @ashleyfeinberg but not me, Deadspin's actual editor! — Tim Marchman (@timmarchman) January 25, 2017 Keep … Continue reading →

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Ted Cruz Makes Deadspin His Bitch

Posted on January 24, 2017 by Lawrence Person

Upon finding out that Texas Sen. Ted Cruz started a regular senate basketball game, Deadspin asked for pictures of Cruz playing. Cruz himself posted a reply: @Deadspin what do I win? pic.twitter.com/9XuRmmIkJS — Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) January 25, 2017 Heh. … Continue reading →

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LinkSwarm for January 20, 2017

Posted on January 20, 2017 by Lawrence Person

Welcome to Inauguration Day, when Donald J. Trump is sworn in as the Forty-Fifth President of the United States of America! Celebrate the momentous day with a Friday LinkSwarm. Trump plans to hit the ground running with a number of … Continue reading →

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Trump Threatens the Establishment

Posted on January 14, 2017 by Lawrence Person

Here’s an interesting piece on the threat Trump poses not only to the media’s political pieties, but to the entire edifice of politically correct moral authority they had spent decades constructing: If all his other cultural blasphemies did not finish … Continue reading →

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LinkSwarm for January 13, 2017

Posted on January 13, 2017 by Lawrence Person

Time to extract more pure wheat from chaff! Glenn Greenwald says Democrats will go to any lengths to avoid blaming themselves for their debacle: I really haven’t experienced anything even remotely like the smear campaign that has been launched by … Continue reading →

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The Great Pickup Truck War of 2017

Posted on January 9, 2017 by Lawrence Person

This past week brought one of those small, illuminating skirmishes in the culture wars, this time over that quintessentially Texas vehicle, the pickup truck. First came this New York Times piece by Many Fernandez on the Texas Truck Rodeo. If … Continue reading →

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